Cases on Torts: Selected and Arranged for the Use of Law Students in Connection with Pollock on TortsBanks & Brothers, 1895 - 602 páginas |
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accident affirmed agent alleged Allen appears appellant applied arrest assault authority averment cause of action charge circumstances cited claim common law complained consequence contract contributory negligence court criminal damnum absque injuria danger decided decision declaration defendant defendant's demurrer doctrine duty entitled error evidence exercise facts false false imprisonment fraud ground guilty held highway horse impute indictment injury judge judgment judicial jury justice justified land liable libel Lord maintain malicious malicious prosecution Mass matter ment natural necessary negligence nonsuit nuisance occasion offence officer opinion ordinary owner party person plain plaintiff plaintiff in error plea premises principle privileged proof proposition prosecution purpose question Railroad Co railroad company Railway reason refused remedy replevin result rule servant slander special damage statute street suit supra sustained tiff tion tort trespass trial trover unlawful verdict warrant Wend words wrong
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Página 338 - ... the law considers such publication as malicious unless it is fairly made by a person in the discharge of some public or private duty, whether legal or moral, or in the conduct of his own affairs, in matters where his interest is concerned.
Página 147 - We think that the true rule of law is that the person who, for his own purposes, brings on his land and collects and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escapes, must keep it in at his peril ; and if he does not do so, is prima facie answerable for all the damage which is the natural consequence of its escape.
Página 262 - All the laws which have heretofore been adopted, used, and approved in the Province, Colony, or State of Massachusetts Bay, and usually practised on in the courts of law, shall still remain and be in full force, until altered or repealed by the legislature; such parts only excepted as are repugnant to the rights and liberties contained in this constitution.
Página 525 - Mere negligence or want of ordinary care or caution would not, however, disentitle him to recover, unless it were such that, but for that negligence or want of ordinary care and caution, the misfortune could not have happened, nor if the defendant might, by the exercise of care on his part, have avoided the consequences of the neglect or carelessness of the plaintiff.
Página 582 - The rights of personal relation forbid: 1. The abduction of a husband from his wife, or of a parent from his child; 2. The abduction or enticement of a wife from her husband...
Página 41 - But it is generally held that, in order to warrant a finding that negligence, or an act not amounting to wanton wrong, is the proximate cause of an injury, it must appear that the injury was the natural and probable consequence of the negligence or wrongful act, and that it ought to have been foreseen in the light of the attending circumstances.
Página 302 - Every contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations." The accepted definition of a conspiracy is, a combination of two or more persons by concerted action to accomplish a criminal or unlawful purpose, or to accomplish some purpose not in itself criminal or unlawful by criminal or unlawful means.
Página 223 - All commercial men with capital are acquainted with the ordinary expedient of sowing one year a crop of apparently unfruitful prices, in order, by driving competition away, to reap a fuller harvest of profit in the future; and, until the present argument at the bar, it may be doubted whether shipowners or merchants were ever deemed to be bound by law to conform to some imaginary "normal" standard of freights or prices, or that law courts had a right to say to them, in respect of their competitive...
Página 525 - But there is another proposition equally well established, and it is a qualification upon the first, namely, that though the plaintiff may have been guilty of negligence, and although that negligence may, in fact, have contributed to the accident, yet, if the defendant could in the result, by the exercise of ordinary care and diligence, have avoided the mischief which happened, the plaintiff's negligence will not excuse him.
Página 314 - In case the charge, if true, will subject the party charged to an indictment for a crime involving moral turpitude, or subject the party to an infamous punishment, then the words will be in themselves actionable...